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Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault.
Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault. Photo: SP4 Johnnie Jackson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Robert William Neher.

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ROBERT WILLIAM NEHER

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

September 1, 1948 – January 29, 1968

Service record

Robert William Neher, of Portland, Oregon, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on January 29, 1968, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 35E, Line 62 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 35E · Line 62

Position of Panel 35E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

Names are inscribed in the order of loss, starting at Panel 1E at the apex and ending at Panel 1W. At the Memorial, find the panel number at the base and count down from the top line.

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Specialist Four (SP4)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
25 INF DIV
Born
September 1, 1948
Home of record
Portland, Oregon (Multnomah County)

Casualty

Date of death
January 29, 1968
Age
19
Province
Binh Duong
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Unknown

Context · from the records

What was happening

32 names on the Wall carry the date January 29, 1968; 14 of them were lost in Bình Dương Province. In January 1968, 1,546 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 169 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 35E, Line 62

Same unit, same day

From Portland

All 183 names from Portland →

Source. U.S. Department of Defense, Defense Casualty Analysis System, Vietnam Conflict Extract Data File (as of April 29, 2008), Records of the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Record Group 330, National Archives (NAID 2240992). Panel and line as recorded in that file. This page presents the official record and its historical context; no biography has been written for him yet. See something wrong? Report a correction.